Category: Powerful lessons

The beginning is always today. One decision. One commitment. One new start. You cannot change the past. But today you can choose goodness. And what you keep choosing, you become.” ~ Mary Shelley

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” ~ David S. Viscott

Don’t sleepwalk through life. Take chances on things that matter. Keep your promises. Buy the ridiculous dessert. Laugh until you can’t speak. You have been given a brief turn at being alive; don’t spend so much of it watching from the sidelines that you forget to live. ~ Anthony Hopkins

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.” ~ Maya Angelou

If I could give one piece of advice it would be: don’t wait for a perfect moment to appreciate your life. There will never be a time that’s free of uncertainty or difficulty. But there will always be something worth noticing, if you choose to look for it. ~ Emma Thompson

Whatever you do in life, make sure you’re in it with all your heart. If you’re not, get out. Once you decide to go all in on something that matters, life rearranges itself around that decision.” ~ Keanu Reeves

Whenever you feel yourself becoming impatient, remember this: rushing rarely saves time. More often, it creates mistakes that need to be corrected later. A few extra thoughtful minutes today can spare you hours of regret tomorrow.” ~ Doris Lessing

“Every morning I wake up, I remind myself that no promise was made for today. That’s where gratitude begins—in knowing this moment is a gift I didn’t earn, but still get to live.” ~ Johnny Cash

Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going… If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~ Jane Goodall

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren’t worse.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most people forget that existence itself is extraordinary. Don’t be one of them.” ~ Ernest Hemmingway

You have no idea how much your words matter. A single sentence spoken at the right moment can remain in someone’s heart for decades. Be generous with encouragement. The world has enough critics already.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

You don’t need to win every conversation, or impress every stranger, you only need to be real. The people who matter will love you for who you are, so just be yourself.” ~ Brad Pitt

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” ~ David Storey

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” ~ Mark Twain

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are and what you can rise from.” ~ Maya Angelou

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I’ll help you. We shall not be here very long … so let us help one another while we may. ~ William Morris

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is a miracle to be here at all, and I think we forget that. We should spend more time being astonished and less time being annoyed.” ~ Judi Dench

The only thing that really matters is you should always be able to look yourself in the eye and say, ‘I did my best.’” ~ Humphrey Bogart

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” ~ Carl Sandburg

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.” ~ Tom Hiddleston

“It’s in the moments of decision, when you’re not sure what to do, that your future is being determined. Don’t ignore those moments. Don’t fear them. Remember your values. Remember your dreams. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Try to focus your time and energy on the things that make a difference, and let go of the things you can’t control. I would tell my younger self to worry less about what others think, and more about what feels true.” ~ Helen Mirren